Menu not showing up for some Qt apps

[Adam Novak]

For some Qt apps from PPAs (I have noticed this with Retroshare 0.5.3.5503 from ppa:csoler-users/retroshare-snapshots and Bitcoin v0.6.3.0-g6e0c5e3-beta from ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin), no menus appear in the global menu bar (just the application's title). However, the application also does not display its own menu bar, and the menu options are still accessible via the Alt-invoked HUD.

Bitcoin's tray icon is also missing, although Retroshare's icons still display properly; I am not sure if those go through this package as well.

Menu options from Qt Creator (in the official Ubuntu repositories) are showing up just fine in the global menu bar.

I am guessing that the flaw lies somewhere in appmenu-qt, since it's responsible for taking an arbitrary Qt app and making its menu options show up in the global menu bar. It's possible that the applications I'm observing this issue with are somehow not well-behaved, but it would be good to know what sort of bad behavior is responsible for this breakage.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: appmenu-qt 0.2.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 3 21:10:26 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: appmenu-qt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.